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As part of street reconstruction, lawns are damaged. For the past six years, the City has restored those areas using seed. Before that, the City restored with sod. Both require ongoing maintenance from residents after installation. Seed has a lower environmental and financial cost. Seed can cost $250-$500 per single-family home where as sod costs $500-$1,000 per single-family home.

residents should be able to get a credit and do it themselves. I probably spent $300 in seed after my property was hydro-seeded and spent hours pulling out weeds. If the city can not do something right the first time let residents do it on their own.

No, sod is the only way to get good, consistent, satisfactory results. The cost difference will be insignificant to the total cost, and a large sod contract by the City will be much less than $1.000 per property.

Well my case is probably somewhat unique, but with a 100% Kentucky Bluegrass yard I would prefer a choice as I believe most sod is Kentucky Bluegrass and the fast germinating seed used would probably not be. I was expecting to be stuck with seeding and was going to ask if they could just skip my house and I would sod it myself. So having a choice would be great. I also like David's idea earlier about perhaps getting a credit to do it myself.

If I had known what I was going to end up with I'd have chosen to pay a private contractor to do it correctly. Spraying a poorly graded mix of dirt and concrete with weed spray was not something I am happy with.

Some people are more particular about their grass, and I the city is tearing up some of it, they should give the owners options--skip them, cheap seed, or sod. From what I have seen, the seed option looks pretty lousy.

i think doing all sod would mean very few people would want to opt for seed...probably is the watering...many people simply don't care about their lawns and will not continue the watering protocol when the city is done. One method SOD and one company hired under separate contract by the city.

After reading thru all of the comments on this topic, I would rather have Davey Tree Expert Co come to do the correct soil work & grass replacement with a credit from the City for them not having this portion of the reconstruction done in my yard.